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On-the-fly hardware acceleration for protocol stack processing in next generation mobile devices

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David Szczesny,

Sebastian Hessel,

Attila BilgicAuthors Info & Claims

CODES+ISSS '09: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis

Pages 155 - 162

https://doi.org/10.1145/1629435.1629457

Published: 11 October 2009 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we present a new on-the-fly hardware acceleration approach, based on a smart Direct Memory Access (sDMA) controller, for the layer 2 (L2) downlink protocol stack processing in Long Term Evolution (LTE) and beyond mobile devices. We use virtual prototyping in order to simulate an ARM1176 processor based hardware platform together with the executed software comprising an LTE protocol stack model. The sDMA controller with diff erent hardware accelerator units for the time critical algorithms in the protocol stack is implemented and integrated in the hardware platform. We prove our new hardware/software partitioning concept for the LTE L2 by measuring the average execution time per transport block in the protocol stack at di fferent activated on-the-fly hardware acceleration stages in the sDMA controller. At LTE data rates of 100 Mbit/s, we achieve a speedup of 24% compared to a pure software implementation by enabling the sDMA hardware support for header processing in the protocol stack. Furthermore, an activation of the complete on-the-fly hardware acceleration in the sDMA controller, including on-the-fly deciphering, leads to a speedup of more than 50 %. Finally, at transmission conditions with more computational demands and data rates up to 320 Mbit/s, we obtain acceleration ratios of almost 80 %. Investigations show that our new sDMA on-the-fly hardware acceleration approach in combination with a single-core processor off ers the required computational power for next generation mobile devices.

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On-the-fly hardware acceleration for protocol stack processing in next generation mobile devices
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  2. Real-time systems
2. Hardware
  1. Hardware validation

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CODES+ISSS '09: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis

October 2009

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ISBN:9781605586281

DOI:10.1145/1629435

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2013/369627
Traboulsi SFrascolla VPohl NHausner JBilgic A(2012)A versatile low-power ciphering and integrity protection unit for LTE-advanced mobile devices10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference10.1109/NEWCAS.2012.6329020(317-320)Online publication date: Jun-2012
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Traboulsi SPohl NHausner JBilgic AFrascolla V(2012)Power analysis and optimization of the ZUC stream cipher for LTE-Advanced mobile terminals2012 IEEE 3rd Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS)10.1109/LASCAS.2012.6180296(1-4)Online publication date: Feb-2012
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